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Interview with Audrey Wong , 1997-08-05
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Identifier: 2015.007.001
Abstract
Wong was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She is from a family of seven children. Her father had a son from a previous marriage, and her mother had six children - three girls and three boys. Her parents were Victoria Wong and [Wong Kun-Yu] - John Wong in English. Her racial background can be traced on her mother's side to Africa, the Mediterranean, and the British Isles. Her father was born in mainland China and was from Canton.
Dates:
1997-08-05
Interview with Aurora Len, 1997-08-27
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Identifier: 2015.007.002
Abstract
Aurora Len, a Chinese-Cuban-American woman discusses her mixed background. She was born in and grew up in Havana, Cuba,where her father owned a fruit store and several other businesses. Though her family was Chinese, her father and his brother were brought to Havana, Cuba by her grandfather at very young age after her grandmother passed away and later her father moved back to China and married her mother. Len herself went to China at age fourteen in 1937 and then moved to the United States...
Dates:
1997-08-27
Interview with Fabiana Chiu, 1997-08-25
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Identifier: 2015.007.005
Abstract
Fabiana Chiu, a Chinese Peruvian woman, talks about her family origins in Peru and the circumstances that led them there. She talks about how her father tried to protect her and her siblings from racial stereotypes because of their outwardly Chinese appearance. But as a result was just perpetuating a stereotyping of his own. Eventually she journeyed to the United States in search of the "American Dream" because in Peru the corporate structure favored nepotism. She went to school and met...
Dates:
1997-08-25
Interview with Frances Bu, 1998-01-21
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Identifier: 2015.007.006
Abstract
Frances Bu, a woman of Cuban-Chinese descent, talks about life in Cuba as a child with a Chinese father and Cuban Mother. She talks about how her father came to reside in Cuba and how he won the love of her mother. Fidel Castro came into power when she was in her teens and the family decided to leave Cuba for the United States. Her father elected to stay behind. Once in the US she experiences an emphasis in a person's race, a phenomenon she claims was never an issue in Cuba, where they...
Dates:
1998-01-21
Interview with Joyce Wong, 1998-01-17
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Identifier: 2015.007.007
Abstract
Joyce Wong discusses her Chinese and Puerto Rican heritage and being raised by a Chinese father and a Puerto Rican mother in Washington Heights, NY. She speaks in depth about her ethnic identity and how it played in relation to her growing up in a mostly Latino neighborhood. She also talks about marrying her husband and how their cultural values clashes. Note that the interview ends abruptly.
Dates:
1998-01-17
Interview with Marie Yvonne Chong, 1998-03-04
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Identifier: 2015.007.010
Abstract
A multiracial Chinese and Afro-Jamaican, Marie Yvonne Chong decribes her southern Chinese family's migration to Jamaica, growing up in a large upper class family, her immigration to New York in 1969 and her racial identity in the United States. Her ancestors migrated to Jamaica as indentured servants and became entrepreneurs afterwards. Her father, a wholesaler and Justice of the Peace, is a Jamaican-born Chinese and her mother is hapa Chinese and Afro-Jamaican. Marie and her seven siblings...
Dates:
1998-03-04
Interview with Mary Chin, 1997-08-15
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Identifier: 2015.007.011
Abstract
Mary Chin, an American with Trinidadian and Chinese heritage discusses her mixed background and family heritage, including the cultural differences between Chinese-Trinidadians and Chinese people. Her mother came from a small town in Trinidad and her father came from China but moved to Trinidad and married her mother there. Her grandfather came from Venezuela but moved to Trinidad for political reasons. Her grandmother was Caribbean-Indian, and later remarried a Chinese man after her husband...
Dates:
1997-08-15
Interview with Randolph Ayow Degannes, 1997-12-06
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Identifier: 2015.007.012
Abstract
Randolph Ayow Degannes talks about his life growing up in Trinidad.
Dates:
1997-12-06
Interview with Rose Lowe, 1998-02-08
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Identifier: 2015.007.013
Abstract
Rose Lowe was born in Jamaica. She talks about the life of her father and how her family ended up in Jamaica. Her grandfather moved to Jamaica with the goal of becoming a business owner, but he died when her father, the youngest, was only six months old. The oldest brother of her father stays in Jamaica, but to get help raising her eight children his grandmother returned to China. The eldest brother of his father does well in Jamaica, and soon his remaining brothers and he moved back to...
Dates:
1998-02-08
Interview with Staceyann Chin
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Identifier: 2015.007.014
Abstract
Poet activist Staceyann Chin shares how different aspects of her identity, especially her hapa Afro -Chinese Jamaican identity, have shaped her life and continue to inform her experiences. Her mother was a poor Black Jamaican woman and her father was a wealthy Chinese businessman. Ms. Chin explains that because Jamaican society is highly stratified by social class and skin color, she was anomalous as a fair-skinned but poor child without parents. She had always known she was ethnically...
Dates:
1997-1998 and 2003
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